Stardate 20010810.1619 (On Screen): Apparently the Blogdex crawler is less than sophisticated, since it ain't crawling. I registered my site with it earlier this week, and it seems to have visited me on the 7th. I had an explicit link to Keith's site on the
front page, but not to
Lia or
Sean or
Chris or
Cat or
Brian and
Bill. Rather, I had links to their result pages at Blogdex, and since then I've been watching a couple of them to see when or if I would show up. Finally it occurred to me: unlike some people I don't keep my list of links on the front page. Rather, I have
a separate page for that. Well, Blogdex isn't following any subsidiary links, evidently; it only found things directly linked from the front page. So I showed up on
Keith's list but not on
Lia's. Rather unimpressive, actually, but what do you expect from academic resources? So this log entry is, to some extent, an excuse to actually really link to those people's pages, but since I only keep a 3-day history on my front page (as wordy as I am) it may be futile if I don't get visited again soon. We'll see how it goes. But this means that the Blogdex listing is even more distorted; it not only favors only those people who run in circles who would be likely to register their sites, but also generally those people whose friends load down their front pages with huge lists of links. Pfeh. What, exactly, is this project really trying to learn or prove?
(discuss)Update 20010811: What do you know? They found the change this morning.
